咦,挺酷的。不知道除了随缘接触或者去学拉丁语/古希腊语之外,还有没有什么办法能精进我的词源学功夫(etymology-fu)。(我小时候确实读过《Word Power Made Easy》,就是它点燃了我对这些东西的兴趣。)
Huh, that's cool. I wonder if there's any way I can expand my etymology-fu apart from just picking stuff up randomly or learning Latin/Ancient Greek. (I did read Word Power Made Easy as a kid. It kicked off my interest in these things.)
……识字与阅读素养方面也不例外。一种初露端倪的反向冲动正在兴起:读者特意转向长篇作品,作为一种智性层面的抵抗。我一直在死磕 Norman Lewis 的《Word Power Made Easy》和 Tom Heehler 的《The Well-Spoken Thesaurus》,不仅是为了扩充词汇量,更是为了重塑有效表达的筋骨。这个计划促使我把 AI 征用为了私人导师。通过 custom instructions,……
…one for literacy is no exception. A nascent contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech. That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions,…
咦,挺酷的。不知道除了随缘接触或者去学拉丁语/古希腊语之外,还有没有什么办法能精进我的词源学功夫(etymology-fu)。(我小时候确实读过《Word Power Made Easy》,就是它点燃了我对这些东西的兴趣。)
Huh, that's cool. I wonder if there's any way I can expand my etymology-fu apart from just picking stuff up randomly or learning Latin/Ancient Greek. (I did read Word Power Made Easy as a kid. It kicked off my interest in these things.)
……识字与阅读素养方面也不例外。一种初露端倪的反向冲动正在兴起:读者特意转向长篇作品,作为一种智性层面的抵抗。我一直在死磕 Norman Lewis 的《Word Power Made Easy》和 Tom Heehler 的《The Well-Spoken Thesaurus》,不仅是为了扩充词汇量,更是为了重塑有效表达的筋骨。这个计划促使我把 AI 征用为了私人导师。通过 custom instructions,……
…one for literacy is no exception. A nascent contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech. That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions,…